Screen LibraryLanguage contact and change in the austronesian world /
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| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2010. ©1994 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
volume 77 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110883091 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110883091.jpg |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 683 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110883091 |
| Index Number: | P130 |
| CLC: | H84-09 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- The classification of the Tamanic languages -- Language change on Umboi Island -- The Polynesian Outliers as a locus of language contact -- Old Javanese influence in Balinese: Balinese speech styles -- Motu-Koiarian contact in Papua New Guinea -- Linguistic evidence for the Tongan Empire -- Cloves and nutmeg, traders and wars: Language contact in the Spice Islands -- Named speech registers in Austronesian languages -- Linguistic evidence for Polynesian influence in the Gilbert Islands -- The mechanisms of language change in Labu -- Contact-induced language change in present-day Indonesian -- The relationship between the languages of the Barrier Islands and the Sulawesi-Philippine languages -- Manado Malay: Product and agent of language change -- Unravelling the linguistic histories of Philippine Negritos -- Early European influence on the languages of Polynesia: The Gambier Islands -- Contact-induced phonological complexification in New Caledonia -- Iaai loanwords and phonemic changes in Fagauvea -- Areal phonological features in north central New Ireland -- Renovation and innovation in the languages of north-western New Britain -- Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands -- Contact-induced change in the non-Austronesian languages in the north Moluccas, Indonesia -- Index |